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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Miami Herald
Byline: Mimi Whitefield
Mar. 20--President Fidel Castro has warned that Cuba may soon be serving up Cuban-made Bacardi on the rocks in retaliation for its long-standing trademark dispute with the rum maker over Havana Club, now the island's most famous rum brand.
"We have given instructions for our industry to start producing Bacardi, because it is ours and better than what they produce," Castro said in a wide-ranging speech broadcast Sunday on Cuban television.
Bermuda-based Bacardi is a family-controlled company that has made its namesake rums since 1862 -- first in Cuba and then offshore after 1960, when Cuba's communist government confiscated its holdings.
"They've robbed the trademark, for example, of Bacardi, which is...
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